Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
This is a dress rehearsal for the day, not long off, when production drops because global resources are depleted. We need to have alternative sources of energy well-embedded long before then.
Profit is a dirty word if you’re on a nice public sector pension. Essential for the rest of us though.
Jim - I should express myself more clearly. I'm suggesting that it needs restructuring in a way that benefits the UK population rather then the efforts to date.
Regards
Richard
Of course you can, as long as you have water, a heat source such as a wood burner, and food that doesn't require refrigeration. It won't be much fun, but it is certainly possible.
Global hydrocarbons will never be depleted as there is a huge amount stored over billions of years. Rather we'd kill ourselves first.This is a dress rehearsal for the day, not long off, when production drops because global resources are depleted. We need to have alternative sources of energy well-embedded long before then.
My pension is in a SIPP that I manage. I'm sure the same is true for many other members. I'm all for companies making a healthy profit so I don't have to spend my twilight years living off Tesco Value baked beans.
But when it comes to the current energy crisis I don't have a problem with taxation effectively subsidising people's bills - all that means is that the better healed sections of society who (hopefully!) pay more tax soften the blow for the people experiencing real hardship. To me that's just how taxation should work in a fair society.
There was none or very little oxygen after the earth was formed by the collision of two large bodies where the vast heat generated melted all the rocks and other gubbins. The metals would have oxidised i.e burned in the oxygen and used up most if not all of it up. There was a lot of carbon dioxide though. The Earth still after 4.5 billion years has a molten metal core.
A billion years after the collision simple plant life arrived and the process of photosynthesis started to replace the carbon dioxide with oxygen. So if we assume that all our oxygen arrived this way there is a hell of a lot of carbon locked up as hydrocarbons. Today the atmosphere contains just 0.04% carbon dioxide and the rest must be locked up somewhere.
e.g. actually training and employing many more nurses and doctors to a good level of skill so they can also have decent conditions of employment and feel able to to do their work better with less stress. Also making the 'care' system a part of how the NHS works, and ensuring *that* had the people and resources to cope properly - ending 'bed blocking'
The answer to our energy problems and something I've been saying for decades is Hydrogen from sea water generated by electricity from the energy we get from our Sun. However there is one huge problem - mankinds attraction to war and conflict.
DV
Alongside this though there also needs to be a means of making sure you extract a useful amount of return from qualified staff before they disappear to the likes of the USA for more monies............... but yes we need to get on with the necessary levels of training alongside adequate remuneration.
"The giant-impact hypothesis, sometimes called the Big Splash, or the Theia Impact, suggests that the Moon formed from the ejecta of a collision between the proto-Earth and a Mars-sized planet, approximately 4.5 billion years ago, in the Hadeon eon (about 20 to 100 million years after the Solar System coalescedHmmm, I think you are getting confused with the formation of the moon? The earth was formed by the accretion under gravity of gas and dust orbiting the newly formed sun and it was the moon that was then formed by a collision of another small planet / large asteroid that bounced off and settled into orbit.
Unless YouTube has been lying to me.
They are still impacted by global markets and French tax payers are subsidising the true energy costs. It’s no different to our govt paying directly into our energy accounts.
The Great Oxygenation Event was caused by Cyanobacteria, not plants. And, man, did it cause a revolution!
Before the GOE, the Earth had a reducing atmosphere instead of an oxidizing one. Back then, if you bought a rusty car it would get shinier and less rusty as time progressed. Auto manufacturing and car dealerships were very different back then — well, they would have been but our species, let alone car salesman, hadn’t evolved yet.
Anyway, it was a crazy time. Life was only unicellular and often thinking to itself if only it could somehow work together to form multicellular life it could specialize with some cells being brain cells that think up stuff. But this was before that so cells had to imagine what multicellular life would be like.
Like I said, it was a crazy time and really you had to be there.
Joe
"The giant-impact hypothesis, sometimes called the Big Splash, or the Theia Impact, suggests that the Moon formed from the ejecta of a collision between the proto-Earth and a Mars-sized planet
the earth was formed by the collision of two large bodies where the vast heat generated melted all the rocks and other gubbins.
Matthew,
See post #2096.
Joe